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Genetic improvement of aquaculture species offers an opportunity for
increased production efficiency, health management, increase in product
quality, and finally increase in profitability of aquacultural enterprises
(Davis and Hetzel, 2000).
Technologies exist actually to genetic improve
include estimation of genetic parameters that describe population and their
differences, evaluation of genetic merit of individuals or families and
defining the structure of a breeding programme in terms of mating plans.
Properly designed breeding programs can make appropriate use of additive and
non-additive genetic variation for traits of economic importance and minimise
the negative effects of inbreeding (Moore et al, 1999).
For penaeids
shrimps the information needed to implement this technology succesfully is
lacking because of difficulty in domestication and in characterization of
markers for these species (Moore & Lehnert, 1998). In this review
information avalaible about shrimp genetic is presented.
This chapter will cover:
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